National Republican., 1887-09-05


never sends me on FOOLS errand.
Again, have to tellyou that tits woman's
specific right to comfort under the stress OF
dire disaster. She is called the weaker vessel,
but all rrofane as well as sacred history At.
tests that when the crisis comes she is better
prepared than man u meet the emergency.
How oflen you have seen woman who seemed
to be q disciple of frlvolty and Incidence who,
under one stroke Of calamity, changed to a
heroine. oh, what great mistake those busi-
ness men make who never tell their business
great loss 10 their store, or some oftbeir COM
ranions in business play them n sad trick, and
they carry the burden all alone. He Is asked
in the household again and again, what is the
natter but be believes II q sort OF Christian
duty to keep all that trouble within his own
soul. oh, sirl your fret duty was to tell your
wife oil al out IL. She, perhaps mignt not have
dlsentangled your finances. OF extended your
credit, but she would have helped you to bear
misfortune: You have no right 20 carry on
There are business men here who know what
mean. There came crisis In your affairs.
You struggled bravely and long; but after
Here shall have to STOP" aud you called IN
your partners, and you called in the most
PIominent men in your employ. and you said;
denly. You could hardly make up your mind
TO pass through the street and over on tho
fetryboat You felt everybody would be Look
you You fastened home. You told your
wife NIL about the affair What did she say2
Did she play the butterfly? Did she talk about
the silks. and the ribbons, and the fashions?
She guailed not under the
stroke. She helped you to begin to plan right
BILE house into a smaller one, and wear the old
cloak another winter She was one who un
derstood your affairs without blaming you.
You looked upon what you Thought was
while. you looked at that arm there came into
the feeble muscles ~ tho strength Of the
eternal God; No ehiding. No frettlng. No
father, from which yon brought her, ten
this is the happlest day OF my life. am glad
don't csfc-I don't care" At the moment You oE
were utterly exhausted, God sent Deborah to
meet the host of the Amalekites and scatter
them like chaH over the plain. There are
sometimes women who sit reading sentimental
novels, and who wish that they had some
grand field In which to display their Christian
they could do If they only had an opportu-
nifty My sister, yeu need not wait for any
such time; crisis will come In your affairs.
household where God will tell you to stand
There are scores and hundreds Of households
to-day where as much bravery and courage
are demanded Of women as was exhibited by
Grace Darling, or Marie Antoinette or Joan Of
Arc.
Again, remark, 1t is woman's right to
bring to us the Kingdom OF heaven. 1t is
easier for a woman to be Christian than
man. Why? You say she Is weaker. No
Her heart is more responsive to the pleadings
fact that she can more easily become Christ
ian prove by the statement that three % -fourths
Of the members of the churches in all Christ
DO 20 q9a
s@s s@Ss say sS 'SS &c soul may ''a1$ ssS.
hefG may Stand here and say yRS aTd W lost 0S anS
undone without Christ There Is q man who
will Iefute IT, may stand here and say there
will be judgment day after u while: Yonder
| is tome one who will reiute II. But a Chris
tian woman In Christian household, living
in the faith and the consistency of Chrlsts
Gospel-nobody can refute that. The greatest
sermons are not preached on celebrated plat.
| forms; they are preached with an audience of
two or three, and In private home life A
| consistent, consecrated Christian service
truth. A sailor came slipping down the
ratline one night, as though something had
hSappensd and The sailors cried What's
as Players hsan me- ne like ghos HSme n
| iluences, consecrated, Christian home in.
huences, are the mightiest OF all influences
who S have s @aintaned their integrity, e not so be
cause they were any better naturally than some
other people, but because there were home in
luences praying for them all the time. They
got a good start. They were launched on the
world with the benedictions of u Christian
mother. They may track Siberian SHOWS, they
may plunge in African jungles, they may fly
TO the earth's end-they cannot go so far and
so fast but the prayers will keep up with them.
/ stand before women to-day who have the
eternal salvation Of their husbands In their
| right hand, On the marriage day you took an
| oath before men and angels that you would be
faithful and kind until death did you part and
believe you are going TO keep that oath; but
after that parting at the door of the grave, will
| 1t be an eternal separation? is there any such
thing as an immortal marriage, making the
flowers that grow on the top Of the sepuchre
fnl,t fhA nrl lie tul,f
riage banquet flooded the air with aroma?
Yes Istand here as priest OF the most high God
to proclaim the bans of an immortal union for
oil those who join bands in the grace of Christ.
o woman, is your husband, your father, your
son, away from God? The Lord demunds
their redemption at your hands There are
prayers for you to offer, there are exhortations
Tor you TO give. there are examples for you to
set. and say now, as Paul said to the Corin-
THAN woman: "What knowest thou,O woman,
but thou cGnst save thy husband?
man was dying; aud ne said to his wife:
"Rebecca, you wouldn't let me have family
prayers; and you laughed about all that, and
you got me away into worldliness; and now
eS e Cause o my S o. woma wSs
knowest thou but thon canst destroy thy
husband? Are there not some here who have
some here who have wandered far away from
God, who can remember the Christian inilu-
epces In their cary home? Do not deSpise
those influences, my brother. lfyou die with
out Christ, what will you do with your
mother prayers, with your wifes importunl-
ties, with your sisters entreaties? What will
you do. with the letters they used to write to
attended you 30 kindly In time of sickness?
oh, If there be just one strand holding you
from floating Off on that dark sea. would just
and pull you to the beach For the sake Of
your wifes God, for the sake of your mothers
God, for the sake Of your daughters God, for
the 'Sss ak OF your sisters God come this day
Lastly. / wish to say that one of the specific
rights Of woman is, through the grace OF
Multitude oi S %omen asash in heSssR SssRea May
Christs mother, In heayen, Elizabeth Fry In
heaven. Charlotte Elizabeth in heaven, the
Of HSntnsdesnwSo III m soa her spendd eWes
to build cbapels-in heaven; while great
many Others, who have never been heard
Sd on o earth pbe or relI knOw and but s have
heaven. What a rest What change change 1t was as
from the small room, with no fire and one
window, the glass broken out, and the aching
many mansionsl' No more stitching until IL
O'Clock as night, no more thrusting of the
thumb by the employer through the work to
Heaven for broken. hearts. Heaven
for anguish'bitten frames. No more
eong s Of iP Sa ep %snfSs m0Pe Es osS sS
blows across the temples. No m lre sharp,
keen, bitter curses. Some OF you will have no
rest In this world. twill be toll, and struggle,
and suffering all the way up. You will hiye
to stand at your own door lighting back the
wolf with your own hand, red with carnage.
to realize this morning thai He is now
making 1t, and whenever you weep a
tear He sets another gem In that crown,
whenever you have pang OF body or soul, He
puts another gem In that crown, until after a
while. in all the tiara there will he no room for
another splendor, and God will say to His
may wearit." And as the Lord Of Righteous
ness puts the crown upon your brow, angel
will cry TO angel; who is she2' and Christ viii
81 Tii tell you who she Is She
tiOn, and had her robe washed and made
white ~ the blood Of the Lamb" Aud then